Today was our semi-annual branch librarian's workshop where we hold a day-long series of presentations related to librarianship and our library system specifically. It went off fairly well with the usual mix of the good (the Dilly Bars from DQ for the afternoon “stretch break” were a hit, even if the weather had turned bitterly […]
One of our branch librarians also works for Regina Public Library. She wrote this article comparing and contrasting the two types of libraries for the Sask Library Association newsletter a couple years ago. I'm reprinting it with her permission.
Each year, our library system gives out four awards to our branches – one for Service, one for Programming, one for Branch Development and one for Branch of the Year which incorporates elements of all three plus more. Right now, I'm working through nearly 200 quarterly reports (48 branches x 4 reports per year) to […]
Amy Jo Ehman and her husband recently spent a whole year eating nothing but Saskatchewan-produced foods. Her year-long experiment is over but she's continued to buy (mostly) from local suppliers. She recently posted a list of where she gets her food from these days.
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that I've been on the road for the past two months doing computer and Internet training at our various branches around SE Saskatchewan (for anyone who doesn't know about our territory, if you draw a straight line from Regina east to the Manitoba border and […]
Skip forward to 3:20 on this video to see what I'm talking about…
You know you've been blogging for a long time when you can do “flashback” posts.Here's one from last year about the record-setting take ($5 million plus) of the annual TeleMiracle telethon that year. This year looks like it won't hit that height (they're currently just shy of $3 million so there'd have to be a […]
Like many places, Saskatchewan has numerous towns with unique names – for example, Moose Jaw, Elbow, Eyebrow, Climax (which is just down the road from Conquest)! Even my own hometown of Indian Head has provided the occasional laugh for the less politically correct among us (although the true reason it has that name is no […]
Just the other day, I was thinking to myself “with all the social networking sites out there, when is somebody going to design an online genealogy site that works in a similar way – you enter the information you know about your family and ancestors and then connect to other family members who have entered […]
Is there a word for “expected volunteering”? I see this all the time in the small towns I visit where the locals are expected to volunteer for various organizations to keep those organizations running – the rec board, the library board, the arts society, the parks committee, etc – so their “volunteer” service to these […]
